http://roderickstackelberg.com Just another Roderickstackelberg.com weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:15:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I probably owed my invitation to give a guest lecture on Nietzsche and the Nazis at the annual conference in Sils-Maria in October 1988 to Papa. He had introduced me to Dr. Roemer, the chief librarian at the public library in Karlsruhe, who maintained a summer home in the ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2012/02/05/memoir-21-making-it-1988-1990/ In spring semester 1986 I took my first sabbatical leave. I traveled to Frankfurt for four or five weeks in February and March on a German Academic Exchange (DAAD) stipend, leaving Nick, now a freshman at West Valley High School, under Sally’s care in Spokane. My research project was on ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2012/01/18/memoir-20-a-productine-period-of-scholarship-1986-1988/ In late October, 1983, I first met Sally Winkle at the home of Olivia Caulliez, still married to my former Gonzaga colleague John Shideler at the time. Sally had just begun teaching German language and literature at Eastern Washington University. We had both attended the annual German Studies Association conference ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2011/12/04/memoir-19-a-new-beginning-with-sally-1983-1985/ Gonzaga Universitygranted me two years’ credit for my experience as Assistant Visiting Professor at Oregon and South Dakota, so I went up early for tenure in academic year 1981-1982. Having been promoted to Associate Professor after the publication of my book, Idealism Debased: From Völkisch Ideology to National Socialism by ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2011/08/19/memoir-18-the-struggle-for-tenure-1980-1982/ In early August 1978 I set out with our loaded van for Spokane—this time, for a change, via Canada and northern Michigan, connecting with I-94 in Minneapolis. Having accumulated enough savings for a small down payment, we had rather optimistically decided to buy a house in Spokane in the hope ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2011/06/24/17-memoir-at-home-in-spokane-1978-1980/ In a way, the replacement position at the University of South Dakota was another step back. My salary was $12,000 for the year, $2,000 less than my starting salary at San Diego State University three years earlier. But I was absolutely delighted to get the job, and as long as ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2011/04/07/memoir-vermillion-south-dakota-1977-1978/ The insecurity of my employment status was beginning to take its toll on our marriage. Steffi was very reluctant to close up her shop again in Irasburg and trek back across the country for another temporary job with no realistic prospect of renewal. What’s more, in San Diego in September ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2011/01/24/memoir-15-eugene-oregon-1976-1977/ We packed up our VW bus and left Vermont on 12 August 1974 on the first of what would turn out to be at least a dozen transcontinental trips, as every year we kept returning to Vermont for the summer until our final parting in 1982. Our first stop in ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2010/11/22/memoir-14-san-diego-1974-1976/ My MA thesis on the Irasburg Affair, completed in December 1971, won the Vermont Bar Association Prize, but I never collected my $50 prize. By the time my degree came due in June 1972 I had already enrolled in a PhD program in history at the University of Massachusetts in ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2010/10/15/memoir-13-amherst-massachusetts-1972-1974/ Steffi and Trina spent the academic year 1970-1971 with me in Burlington at an apartment at 43 South Winooski Avenue, within walking distance of the UVM campus. Our landlady was quite suspicious of us when we first looked at the apartment in early August . She apparently had some bad ... http://roderickstackelberg.com/blog/2010/06/14/memoir-12-burlington-vermont-1970-1972/